Farren C K, Dinan T G
Department of Psychiatry, St. Patrick's Hospital, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.
J Stud Alcohol. 1996 May;57(3):249-52. doi: 10.15288/jsa.1996.57.249.
To assess the validity of alcoholic typology in an Irish private hospital population.
We interviewed a randomly selected group of inpatient and outpatient alcoholics (N = 48, 42 male) in a private hospital in Ireland. Subjects had a structured psychiatric interview, including completion of a severity of alcohol dependence questionnaire, a Hamilton depression rating scale and a typology questionnaire.
We found that there were differences between groups of alcoholics when divided according to Cloninger's typology hypothesis and by Von Knorring's age of onset criteria. The Type 2 early age of onset alcoholics (n = 23) had a significantly higher percentage of positive family histories of alcoholism, (p < .01), a higher percentage of sociopathic traits (p < .01) and increased severity of alcoholism (p < .05), relative to the Type 1 late age of onset alcoholics (n = 25). The Type 2 alcoholics also had increased daily consumption of alcohol in the month prior to admission, poor behavioral tolerance to the effects of alcohol and more fights that the Type 1 alcoholics.
We concluded that there is validity to alcohol typology theory in relation to this Irish private hospital population and that age of onset is a useful defining criterion.
评估酒精类型学在爱尔兰一家私立医院患者群体中的有效性。
我们在爱尔兰一家私立医院对一组随机抽取的住院和门诊酗酒者（N = 48，42名男性）进行了访谈。受试者接受了结构化的精神病学访谈，包括完成酒精依赖严重程度问卷、汉密尔顿抑郁量表和类型学问卷。
我们发现，根据克隆宁格的类型学假设和冯·诺林的发病年龄标准进行划分时，酗酒者群体之间存在差异。与1型晚发酗酒者（n = 25）相比，2型早发酗酒者（n = 23）有酗酒家族史阳性的比例显著更高（p < .01），反社会特质的比例更高（p < .01），酗酒严重程度更高（p < .05）。2型酗酒者在入院前一个月的每日饮酒量也更多，对酒精作用的行为耐受性较差，且比1型酗酒者有更多打斗行为。
我们得出结论，酒精类型学理论对于该爱尔兰私立医院患者群体是有效的，且发病年龄是一个有用的定义标准。
